Sneaking out of the house was nearly impossible. Since the start of bird season the dogs never took their eyes off me, particularly...

Maggie in her new home.      Ripsnorter Magalloway Magic Snapshot came home with us the end of February, 2016. In our neck of the woods...

     Across the stream the cover looked perfect. Isn’t that always the way? Mixed hardwoods towered over clumps of alders and softwoods sto...

               It was a few years back, I had been thinking about it since the previous year, when I drove by the gate and noticed a part...

So close yet so far...      Across the river looked to be mighty birdy country, but the water was too deep to wade, so to get there mea...

     There is some encouraging news about the magical woodcock. In our area, their numbers have been steady the last few years because of...

     It is time to get ready for bird season. The young woodcock and grouse of the year are old enough to fly, so we have been running the ...

     A woodcock fluttered up and away my very first time there. That was eleven years ago and it seemed like a pretty good omen. Barbed w...

It's that time of the year.      Two days ago, while walking to the compost, a young grouse exploded out of the weeds beside our fi...

      There are a million chores that arrive with spring. Up here in northern grouse country, spring doesn’t come until summer, so much is ...

Here is more information on a troubling and controversial subject; http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2016/07/27/neu...

       The snow finally left about a week ago, it had doggedly lingered in the shadows of the softwood trees. If you poke around on the no...

     Being a skeptical Yankee, I might be a bit slow to accept new ideas. At my age, I’ve seen enough new ideas come and go to let other’s ...

Woodcock eggs     We have all seen housecats coming home with a mouse or bird in their mouth, looking quite proud. Recent studies are s...

    For the last couple of decades we were told that if we didn’t spay or neuter our pets we were irresponsible. Possibly, we were rushed i...

     It happened back in my early duck hunting days, long before I owned my first duck boat. In those days I used to put a tiny outboard on...

There is a growing body of evidence that the negative side effects of neutering a dog young are serious. Here is another read on the subject...

Our brook. We walk often in the winter. When the snow is deep enough that the dogs bog down, the plowed logging roads become our choice...

    The snow is deep and climbing over the plowed up snowbank is difficult. Then caution is required going down the slope, although slippin...